This is another asteroid-turned comet, with an exceptionally eccentric orbit (e = 0.997).It's an 11th-magnitude object in the morning sky (in Scorpius) at the moment, but is expected to brighten up to 7th magnitude over the next couple of months.

One of the advantages of the iTelescopes in New Mexico is that their early morning is around lunchtime here, which is when I managed to get this image today:

It will still be with us in September, when it will appear in Taurus, close to The Pleiades. And in the middle of that month another comet (C/2017 O1) will pass nearby too - so that could be a good opportunity for a wide-field image!

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